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Speaking Poetry: Exploring Sonic Patterns Through Performance
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| Grades | 9 – 12 |
| Lesson Plan Type | Standard Lesson |
| Estimated Time | Three 50-minute sessions (plus time for students to memorize and prepare their recitations) |
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Chicago, Illinois |
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STUDENT INTERACTIVES
Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
Useful for a wide variety of reading and writing activities, this outlining tool allows students to organize up to five levels of information.
PROFESSIONAL LIBRARY
Grades 7 – 12 | Professional Library | Book
Wordplaygrounds: Reading, Writing, and Performing Poetry in the English Classroom
O'Connor offers new approaches to teaching poetry in middle and high school with more than 25 writing activities that can constitute an entire course or work as individual lessons.

